And joseph kil



(No Model.)

J. W. SMITH &*J. K. PRIEST.

HAIR CLIPPER.

No. 347,207. Patented Aug. 10, 1886.

(757022 mi/b e JJeglKBzlesf.

n. ravens, Plwtv-Lithognpher, Washington. DEC.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JoHN WATERSTON SMITH, or BOSTON,'MASSACHUSETTS, AND JosEPH KIL- BURN PRIEST, or NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

HAIR-CLIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,207, dated August 10, 1886.

Application filed November 13,1885. Serial No. 182,679.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN WATERSTON SMITH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and J o- SEPH KILBURN PRIEST, ofNashua, in the county of Hillsborough, of the State of New Hamp shire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hair-Clippers; and we do here by declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of a hair-clipper provided with our invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 3 is a top view, Fig. 4 a rear end View, and Fig. 5 a vertical and median section, of the removable comb-plate, to be described. Fig. 6 is a rear end view, and Fig. 7 a transverse section, of the stationary toothed plate of the hairclipper.

The invention may be said to be an in1- provement with reference to that described in the United States Patent No. 237,090, dated February 1, 1881, such improvement relating to the construction of the removable combplate, and to means of connecting it to the stationary toothed plate of a hair-clipper, in order for such comb-plate to be adjustable into different positions downward relatively to or distances from the said toothed plate, so as to adapt the clipper to the cutting of hair to different distances from the scalp or flesh, as circumstances may require. c In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings the hairclipper is shown at A and the removable comb-plate at B, the stationary toothed plate of such clipper being represented at a and the reciprocating cutter-plate at b. Each hooked tooth of the removable comb-plate has in the back of its barb 0 two or more notches, d, arranged at suitable distances asunder, such notches being to receive the end of a tooth of the toothed plate. The notches of any one of the barbs correspond in distances asunder with those of each of the other barbs. Furthermore, the comb-plate has a flange, 6, projecting up from it at each of its two opposite (No model.)

edges, such flanges being a distance apart equal to. the width of the toothed plate, on whose two opposite edges they lap when the comb-plate is connected to the toothed plate.

In the upper part of the comb-plate is a rectangular and shallow recess, f, within which there are arranged, as represented, two springcatches or elastic hooks, g g, each being formed as shown, and fastened at one end of its shank to the comb-plate. The barbs h of the catches extend upward at the rear edge of the combplate. The rear edge of the stationary toothed plate is inclined or beveled, except at the ends of such edge, such being as shown ate in Figs. 6 and 7, and for the springcatches to hook upon.

The spring-catches can be sprung backward, to enable the comb-plate to be applied to the toothed plate with the teeth of the latter in either range of notches of the barbs of the comb-plates, the spring-catches with such notches serving to hold the comb-plate in connection with the toothed plate, from which it will be seen that it becomes an easy matter to apply and fix the comb-plate to or to remove it from the toothed plate, and to adjust the comb-plate to different distances downward from the toothed plate as the ranges of notches in the barbs of the teeth of the comb-plate may allow.

We do not claim, broadly, a comb plate adapted to a hair-clipper by means, and constructed as represented in the United States Patent No. 237,090.

We claim-- 1. The combination of a hair-clipper of the I class represented with a hooked comb-plate adapted to the stationary toothed plate of such clipper, and having means, as described-- viz.,' notches in each of its hooksfor adjustmeans of holding it with such flanges and either the spring-catches to engage the rear bex'eled of the said ranges of teeth in connection with edge of said cutter-plate, substantially as set .0 the stationary toothed plate of a hair-clipper, forth. all being substantially and for the purpose as JOHN \VATERSTON SMITH. 5 set forth. JOSEPH KILBURN PRIEST.

3. The combination, with the comb-plate \Vitnesses:

having the upturned side flanges to embrace the two opposite edges of the cutter-plate, of

R. H. EDDY, JEREMIAH J. SULLIVAN. 

